Additional Mail News.
Another Collision ia the Eighteen Lives Lost;. " v
; At 3 o'clock on the ntbrnins of the 2bth ; August^tbre French "steamer "t-fi" Germain and ' the steamer Woodburn, from; the East, by -way of the Suez Canal,4^meiinto".odlliEiorii dff the Eddy* stone lighthouse . The Woodburn immediately , sank,, and .of : her) crew were drowned. ' { The St j&ermajn,^ m a disabled condition, arrived at Plymouth, and landed the passengers saved from the Wbodbura. It was a" fine starlight night, and the sea was calm atthe time of the collision. The" Wood burn was m tow of the tugboat iK'ecovery at the time, and the St. Ger-' mafn's helm was ported m order that the steamer might go by the tugboat's stern. >The' officers -of the French ■' steamer had no idea -there was a ship m lead, but the tugboat-captain states that he, had two bright lights at the tug's masthead, a clear indication that she had a yesspl m tow,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 2
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158Additional Mail News. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 2
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